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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1968-10-24, Page 2Sines 1860, $ervirj t , Ant. ,,robliilutft at. =Airman. orrrARR); nvort Thursdheay C:411414liklacAN Me, Ltd- 4.110RAW V44.010.014, Editor , Member CanadianWeekly Newspaper A.stiociation Ontario Weekly NeWaPaPers .Wociation Audit Bureau of Circulation and Class W Community Newspapers Subscription, Rates: Canada (in advege) $5.00 a Year Outside Canada (in advance) $7.00 a. Year SINGTA COPiES — 12 CENTS EACH Authorized as Second Class Mail, Post Office Department, Ottawa SRAFORTII, ONTARIO, OCTOBER 24, 1968 •v -the society of the day taken the trouble to Understand the problems that were driving minorities to drastic action? Those among p, minority in Huron who, 130 years ago, supported William Lyctn" McKenzie in the Rebellion of '37 were not prompted by any lessoning in • -their love for Canada but rather by an inability to gain, recognition of their complaints against the4Canda Company and the Family Compact. Looking to a future in a new county in which the individual would be heard, they were met by strong indifference. So it is with most minorities. • Prime Minister Trudeau pointed up the importance of understanding and just treatment as he unveiled a statue to Louis Riel in Regina recently. Min- orities must not be judge,d and con- demned simplY' because they don't con- form. Mr. Trudeau put it this way: "Yet this yery setting, this very tranquility, this sense of orderli- ness and propriety make me think Understanding Minorities How many rebellions could have been avoided through the years had how difficult it. is for us to under- stand Louis Riel. What forces mo- tivated this man? What social con- ditions led him to believe that noth- ing -short of rebellion would serve the cause to which he had pledged himself? "How many other Riels exist in Canada, beyond the fringe of ac- cepted conduct, driven to believe that this country offers no answer to their needs and no solutions to their problems? "How many of us understand the loneliness, the sense of futility of such a man? How many of us are willing to concede that future historians, in chronicling the ev- ents of our lives, may choose to em- phasize and applaud the activities, not of the privileged majorities, - but of some little-known leader of an unpopular. minority?" Only history will tell whether, the Riels of today exist because we are so bound up in our majority opinion that we hesitate , towards anything that would tend to disturb it. From My Window I've been tremendously inter- ested in these schools I've been hearing about where the kids make all the tales. Apparently, there are actually places—other than the faltering home—where children set the standards. It wasn't enough that we have mothers and fathers who are afraid to come downstairs after eight o'clock at night lest their teenage kids era taking an, LSD excursion with some paL9 and wouldn't like it if they were in- terrupted. Now we have to have schools where the teachers practice the ancient ritual of silent obedi- ence as their new masters—the students—stalk all over them in their high heeled hoofers and their low loose locks. It certainly Limit much won- der that adults the world over are shaking their heads, in is- niay as the younger generation rocks and rolls its way to ruin- ation. This self-expression mon- ster they've created has the up= per hand now and, it is going to take something inote than a • sound scut on the hind end to cure it. I understand that in these •new fangled educational institu- • tions young boys and girls are encouraged to make their own decisions about life. If they pre - By Shirley J. Kellar fer to explore the excitement of alcohol and drugs to the thrill of arithmetic and dramatics, they are urged to barge ahead. Experience. is the best teach- er, they say, but rd hate to think that every new automo- bile driver would have to wrap his car around a tree before he could learn how to avoid an accident. There is lots of noble sound- ing talk about youth wanting to be free, but nobody seems to be taking the time to find out what freedom really involves. The younk men and women who sit smoking pot and spout- ing poetry aren't free agents. They're escape slaves, caught up in a phony cardboard landscape where the only' sense of fulfil- ment is to drag someone else down into the mire. Protest marchers talk about freedom in such glowing terms one is almost tempted to accept their philosophy until it be- comes sadly evident that free- dom isn't a road one can travel alone. Can there truly be free- dom without reason and respon- sibility? I may be old fashioned., but I believe that the sooner children are taught respect, decency and honesty, the sooner all men will be free. I also doubt that a bby or girl of teen age can safely decide their destiny without some very - definite guidelines from parents and teachers. Think about the kids of your own acquaintance. Give them their heads and they'd eat them- selves into chronic malnutrition, dance themselves into .exhaus. tion, entertain) themselves into ignorance and discover their way right into the penitentary. Most tragic of all, kids really don't want to make their own way in the world. :In this res- pect, youngsters are smarter than their parents. It has actually been proven that your teenage son enjoys the occasional rap in the mouth for Sassing his mother and that 11 -year-old daughter you've been worrying about secretly wishes you'd cut her bangs and put her to work with the vac- uum cleaner. Youth is the time to have fun. What wants to be burd- ened at that time with all those decisions about life? It is so much more pleasant to have a few simple strictly enforced regulations to order your days. And when you get off the beaten path, it is pretty nice to have a loving parent to snap your chain and set you right again. Man, that's when a guy is rally free. Sugar and Spice — By Bill Smiley — AN APOLOGY FROM SMILEY • Every so often I get myself Into such a bind that a razor blade and, a tals of hot water seem the -only honourable way out. The sole reason I am still With you is that either my wife has just ruined my last blade shaving her lega, or everybody In the house has just had a bath and there'll nO hot water' •• left. . • • I'M in one of these now. • Bind, that is, not batii. First of all, the Slovaks are after me. In a recent coluinn about the CzechS, X^ used, not inadvert- ently, the phrase "those lousy • Slovaks." Six of my 12 Slovakian read Ora took exception, readhig it • Ottt Of eontext, as people always do tV11121V ffifey want to take ex• - ception. • No lest a person than Louis GOtok, tecret,ary of the Slovak •Benefit s Soeietyf read my arti- cle "by chance." By chance my foot It a0 bYl9t14y seit to hfrit by aonie IhUSY Cieen; tri Wrote a letter to the editor, • *hick &Of -With the inirkiiing • ciptcaton# "WidieVet. going to' seed k hate *ill findhimSelf •itt t hatraw oikne by.alt ,13hivek, veterans, naggeskid thaft Aini)not ',IGNGItANT, tut ineinber iome Nazis (sic) organization. Wel, I'd rather be lousy than both ignorant and a Nazi. (I am ignorant, was lousy when I was a P.O.W. and have not been, nor ever expect to be a Nazi) Curiously, this letter too contains the op/15-9Am "If You are going to seed HATE;' you will find yourself in kindred." Collusion, What? Well, good Slovaks, and your ladies I apologize. If our educa- tional system was any „ good, you'd have known what I meant. The original said, "Here you are, a good, haled Bohemian (Czech), After World tar 1 you are thrown in kiiith those lousy Slovaks and told you are now a Czechoslovakian. Let's, change that. Makd it read, "Here you are, a good, honest Slovak. After World War 1, you are timiwn in with those lousy Bohemians and tolcl. you are now a CiechoSlovaidan." , And that's about what they think of each other, Divide and �htir alWays say. But now Mt have the Czechs after me. The telt Balkan war May be touglit tight hke in Canada, with yeure trul, slap in the Mid- ..... ,WaY otit that / can .00 ia buy two tickets. to the next ball sponsored by the 8Iovak Benefit Soddy. But even the vision of slay. • ering Slovaks and choking Czechs seeking my blood doesn't bother me nearly as much as the next ordeal in my current bind. I'd rather face 100 of them, bare-handed, than go through with it I have to make a Speech to the Women's Institute. I would rather walk berated Over a glowing bed of red-hot go-go girls than make the speech. However, it's my' own fault. ‘Their secretary wrote me last June, asking me to speak. I Ignored the letter, hoping it would go away, or that I'd die, Then came the mail strike. Thought I was -safe. Not so. Early September she wrote again, sharply reminding me. Still I ,stalled, but no use. It wasn't my sense of honor that made me aceept. It was the fact that the secretary's daughter was in my home forin. Very day she sat and looked at me with huge, reproachful eyes. rinaliy, 1 bioke, and blurted, . t'All right, Marsha, all right!, Tell your 11tinn I'll do it.' She beamed. Her teach hadn't let her down. • What in the holy old red - eyed world does one say to a group of first.class women who hakre already heard a Speaker on every potaThle topic? Well, / have my opening par- agraph ready. It goes like this: 123.14throwmatisatoish • OPINE 1.0110DISTAtiCE In the Years Agone From The Huron Expositor Oct.. 29th, 1943 • Seaforth Fire Brigade battled for over two hours before gain- ing control of the fire which - broke out in the Hesky Flax Products Ltd. Neighbors and friends of Mr. and Mrs. J. Medd, Constance, held a reception in the F9rrest- er's Hall, when Wilbur Jewitt read an address and Roy Law- son presented thein with a Chair and kitchen utensils. The Seaforth High School Cadet Corps marched to First Presbyterian Church attired in their brand new army style uni- forms. The Seaforth Red Cross So- ° ciety held the largest blood clinic since its inauguration. This is the eighth clinlc„and there were 116 donors. While sweeping off the roof of the barn after threshing had been 'completed, W. V. Jeffer- son fell 27 feet to the cement floor and was badly shaken up. He is 72 years of age, but is standing the ordeal very well. Christmas boxes have been packed, for the following boys. at the honiii of Mrs. Morley -Cooper at Kipper': Bill Chip - chase, Syd Taylor, Melvin Tay- -ler, Frank Young, James Young, Norman Jolly; Wm. Powell, Vic- tor Block, George Few, Thomas Smith, Donald Dayman, Wil- fred Cameron, Stewart ' Pepper, Alex Irvine, John Wood and Jack TaYlor: * * * From The Huron Expositor Oct. 25th, 1918 • A number of the villagers of Hensall are having sawing bees and lajring in a -nice supPlY of "The Women's • Institute should be wiped out, with fire and sword, if necessary. Speak- ing as a .man, I would like to see every branch smashed, all reeordksi put to the flames, and any executive membeis who 'might be caught sent to Can- ada's tundra to spend the rest of their lives milting motions and resolutions and phoney Es- kimo carvings and not asking people to speak to them." On ,second thought, maybe I'd better take on the entire Czecho-Slovak population ,of Canada, and get it over with • quickly. wood for the coming winter, as the coal situation is not too promising. Harry Weiland of Egmond- ville received word that his son Gunner Frank Weiland ,had died at sea. Miss Willson of Detroit was called here, awing to the serious illness of her niece, Miss Muriel Willis. The munition plant was 'shut down for a few days owing to the number of men who were off on account of influenza. David H: 'Wilson has joined, the staff of the Bank of Com- merce. - • Wm. Oughton died at his home on High St. after a short illness from pneumonia. He was the husband of Dora Smithers who survives- him, together with 'three small children.• . Benjamin Snell . 01 Constance gave his leg a nasty cut with a corn hoe which turned to blood poisoning but which is now on the mend. The Patriotic concert held in the Staffa Hall on Thanksgiv- ing was a deeided,success,,,hav- ing realized the sum of $100 to go towards. getting Christmas boxes for. our boys overseas in Staffa. . * * * From The Huron •Expositor Oct. 27th, 1893 The old tannery on the flats has been dismantled and the framework hauled away. It was an old landmark, having, been built during the early • settle- ment of the country. Mr. D. D. Wilson shipped a car load of turnips to Nova Scotia to feed the thoroughbreds he is importing and which are detained in quarantine. Chas. Aitzel ,of town has sold his fine chestnut trotting mare to Mr. Dumert, Zurich who al- ways keeps a slashing driver. Roger Pepper of Tuckersmith has purchased the Cyrus Turn- er farm on the 3id. Concession, L.R.S., for the sum of $3,800. The fatm contains 100 acres of excellent land. Wm. Allan of Tuckersmith. has sold his farm on the 'A concession to David, Ferguson of Grey, for4cthe sum of $5,650. - • While Jamee Scott, Sr., of Cromarty was driving home one evening his horse became un- manageable and threw him to •the ground_ His injuries were severe. We are pleased to learn that John Morrison of ' Walton has been successful M his third class examination' and is now fully en- titled to attend, model school. The brick work on the new town building is nearing com- pletion, J. W. Ortwein of Zurich, has moved into his newly bought dwelling, formerly owned by E. J. Hardy. Having disposed of my • business to Mr. and Mrs. Wallace Jackton, of London who are now in possebsion, I wish to express appreciation to all those with whom I was associatetduring the 12 years in business in Brucefield and to request on behalf of Mr. and Mrs. Jackson the same' patronage and co- operation that was extended to me. Mrs. A.' 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